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Homebrew (Wii)
A potentially sensitive subject.
Just got the channel for the Wii and also a back up channel for....well back ups. Anyone else got the Homebrew channel? What do you use it for? |
I have every NES game, a lot of Super Nintendo games, every Atari 2600 game, a few Genesis games and N64/PSX/Colecovision/a bunch of other emulators on it that either don't work yet or I have no roms for. It is amazing. Pretty much the primary reason I even use my Wii. Played through all of Earthbound using just the Wii Remote and now I'm doing A Link to the Past on it. There is supposed to be a way to play DVDs but I haven't figured out how to work that yet. And a lot of cool things to download from Homebrew Browser.
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Yeah, I read that there's a way to make it a dvd player
There's apps where you can use your wii mote as spirit level, why you would ever want that is beyond me. But still pretty cool |
Wii Strobe is the best possible use of the wii
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Never even heard of this. Should probably use my Wii for more than just Guitar Hero and Smash Bros every 4 months prolly.
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I only use the Homebrew to play backups.
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All I have is a port of VisualBoyAdvance that I play Fire Pro Wrestling 2 on and Gecko OS to play my NTSC copy of Brawl. |
It's some emulator called WiiSX that probably shouldn't have even been released yet cause it doesn't work. They just updated it like two weeks ago but I don't think it even has an interface yet and my Wii froze when I tried to use it. But you can download ISOs to a folder and it's should be able to play them.
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Also how do you do backups
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I use a soft-mod called Softmii.
Download the install programs, put them on an SD card, put it in your Wii, and follow the instructions. |
I got some shit that actually gives me a channel for back ups so I don't have to run stuff through an sd card.
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The SD card is just for installing the necessary hacks.
Once it's installed, you don't need the SD card anymore. I can put in any backup and select it from the disc channel. |
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It is that simple, but you can't update the Wii immediately until there's an OK from the soft mod developers because update might mess up the hack. But I haven't found a need to update my 3.2 firmware because I don't use WiiWare/VC/Wii Store anyway.
You can find the instructions and judge for yourself whether it's easy or not. Just search for "softmii" on Demonoid or wherever. |
Yeah I downloaded some directions, and apparently I need to do everything from the ground up like the Twilight hack. I dunno, seems overwhelming. How are burning games? Any kind of special discs or burner I need?
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DVD-R is best and burn as slowly as possible.
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I heard updates might brick your wii if you have homebrew
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not homebrew channel. they will make it so you can't install it, but i think if you already have it then it won't do anything.
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I ended up downgrading the firmware first of all, there are ways to do it without the twilight hack |
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Can someone walk me through how to do this Homebrew thing? I'd love to play emulators on the Wii, but I need to be clued in on how to do it
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What system menu are you on? You can check in the settings.
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Ok I know how to, on any version, as this thing I got downgrades it
It took me ages, but I've got by far the simplest solution on how to make it work, but there's no way I'm putting it on here on the forum direct. As it's potentially bad for me legally PM me if you want details, if your a new poster that has less than 1000 posts, forget about it, your not getting it. |
OK COOL
My Wii is "modded" now, thanks to Dave Youell. Now I play the waiting game for the shits to download. :( |
I don't know what to do. I burned Resort and tried to load it. It came up with the 002 error, which I researched and they said use the GeckoOS with 002 fix. I don't know how that works. I cleaned my sd card, and put the Gecko wad in a folder named wad, and just have the wad manager 1.4 .dol by itself in the root of the sd card. What am I doing wrong?
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Okay Punch Out works fine. YouTubed like 423152 videos about 002 and finally found one with files and shit I could download. Used that, and have been fine. Resort is probably a bad iso or something. Gonna download a different copy.
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Hey, I have a question. Can I go online with this stuff installed? I unplugged the ethernet cable to be safe. Can I still go online with my real games like Mario Kart? If not, I'm probably gonna sell all my games if I can get the burnt ones to work and replace them.
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You can go online with ANY game, retail or otherwise.
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So it's pretty much just system and game updates I need to watch out for? Nintendo doesn't do ban waves like Microsoft?
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We never really go online or any of that shit with our shit. I mean, it's broken but I know a guy who knows a guy that can fix our shit and hard mod it for a little extra. Worth it, you think?
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I'd say so. I don't go online either, just the Mario Kart back when it was released. I'm perfectly happy keeping it offline playing free games and shit.
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Fuck Nintendo online. Also, just noticed that like every other word in my last post was "shit"
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Was that a nigger moment?
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No, I just use shit as a catch-all noun far too often. My cuss word vocabulary needs expanding.
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So wait is there a backup loader that plays games off your SD card? or you need the burnable DVD-R?
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My brother is getting his Wii fixed and modded afterall.
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so i had no idea about any of this, but seeing this thread made me search google and now i am playing all of my favourite SNES/N64/NES/Genesis games on my wii for free
tpww, i thank you. |
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I started the thread you sod. REP ME! LOVE ME!!!! EXCEPT ME!!!! |
Love everyone EXCEPT you?
Done :D |
need a new Wii sports iso with one "fast" download. can anyone help?
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just homebrewed my friend's wii and it turns out you don't need the twilight hack for homebrew channel anymore. it didn't even work on his version 3.4U so I went with this BootMii installer or something which worked fine.
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Yeah, My one works on 4.0E no twilight hack needed
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to people PMing me asking me to help them set up their Wiis:
if you are too stupid to use google and look it up yourself, you are too stupid to do it properly and will brick your wii, so i'm not helping if you're just a lazy fuck who wants to be spoon fed, suck my dick. |
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Wow, way to be a jerk. Can't believe anyone would want help from you with that attitude. :n: If anyone wants to soft mod their Wii, give me or Dave Youell (if he still wants to help) a PM, and we/I will help you out. I'll also help you install some other things that I needed that wasn't in the basic package. |
My next task is to set it up to play games off my usb drive. Feeling pretty iffy about it right now. So much info out there to pick through. Could someone possibly point me in the right direction?
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I'd rather people be angry at me for not helping them, than be angry at me because I was part of what caused them to brick their wii and lose all their save files.
And if people who I don't really know are too lazy to google something, do they really deserve help? I mean at least show that you put some effort in, the PMs I got were people saying "i have no idea about anything, can you do it all for me?" |
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I've got a step by step plan that cane be done in 10 minutes now, and that was built by scratch Because you have to take a different approach with each version of the firmware, it's a bit harsh going nuts at everyone. I do agree that people coming back at you for bricking it isn't cool though, I knew the risk when I was doing this. I am finding some games don't work though, which is annoying |
What's the problem?I've burnt maybe 20 games now, and haven't had any not work. Maybe I can help you out this time.:p
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Well no, I take that back. The only one that didn't work was Resort (J), but I gave up because it's coming out in a few days anyways and I'm buying it.
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I'm hoping it's just a burning issue, but the following flat out won't play and come up with a 0002 failure:
Punch Out The Conduit Madworld Boom Blox Bash Party -- I have been overworking my PC trying to produce all of these, so I'm hoping that it's just because there was something up with the burning -- Oh also I know there is a known issue on Sam And Max Season 1. It won't play any of the episode's at all and just resets the machine, appears to happen with all versions. |
The way I used to avoid the 002 error, was by launching the game from a channel with the 002 fix built in. But now, I just fix the error on the ISO itself, before burning. I can run the games just fine now on the Back Up channel.
This video shows how to fix the 002 and has links to the software you need. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y0eH1t3sSI |
Thanks mate
I'll have a proper look into all that later when I'm home So there's basically 2 programmes that will look into the ISO file and I need to change some of the .dol info and then re-burn? Seems easy enough |
This is the Guide I used to softmod my wii:
http://www.yafaze.com/forums/viewtop...8&p=9923#p9923 <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sRKYzsEkJ1A&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sRKYzsEkJ1A&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> I want to do this |
Ok, as this is turning into a thread for all Q and A
With the homebrew Wads I don't currently have any Roms or loaders Do i have to run them all off an SD card or could they be run of a DVD with loads of them on there Also, are there any decent sites for roms and the loaders, or is this more of a torrent thing |
I've downloaded punchout NTSC to use on my PAL, I've burnt it twice now, keep getting the green screen using backup launcher.
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I don't get a green screen, I get the blue screen 0002 error What are you using to burn the discs, have other ones worked? |
Oh wait a sec, this may answer the problem
I'll have to double check, but I know that I've been downloading Pal and NTSC games, maybe all those failures were NTSC versions, I'll have to double check |
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Right. One program (Wii Scrubber) will let you dissect the ISO to extract the main.dol (where the 002 is), and the second program (Generic Wii Patcher) will open that main.dol and look for and fix the 002 error. You then go back into Wii Scrubber (which you should still have open) and replace that infected main.dol with the new and improved 002 free main.dol. May sound complicated, but it's cake work really. I make sure to check every ISO I download now, so I don't have to worry about which channel to play it from. |
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Seems simple enough One app is designed to breakdown the file where I find the dol The other app fixes the dol I just replace the Dol using the first app Does that app then remake the ISO or do I have to burn it in a different way? |
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I'm sure you already know, but another reminder, don't ever update your Wii with a different region game. |
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I thought the back up launcher by-passed all that stuff so I could play multi format I'm not planning on updating my Wii again anyway, hardly do online gaming and I've got all the resources here to keep me busy for a while |
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Yeah, I want to get into using a USB drive. I have a spare 250gb one collecting dust. I just don't know where to start, because there's like 432151 ways to do it. (feels like it newayz) |
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Mines not currently connected to the web and I have no aspirations to, does that mean I'm amune to this happening then? Unless a disc has a software update on it (like Mario kart Wii and Zelda?) Then I need to avoid like the plague. Do any of these new games with the motion plus need updates? I'm just safer sticking to Pal versions aint I? So if a Wii were to brick, how would one fix that? Is it possible to? |
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The only thing I know of involving new games and updates, is that Resort has a problem that if you play a VC/WiiWare game off a SD card, then go to play Resort, it'll make you watch the 3 minute Motion+ video again. 4.1 fixes that problem. I don't play anything off a SD card, so I'm not worrying with the update. I just hope the update isn't on the disc and requires it to play. (I'm actually buying it). As far as sticking with PAL, I would do it, but only because I/we are pretty novice with this kind of stuff and don't wanna fuck anything up. |
Actually, the link in that guy's video looks pretty easy. Gonna give the USB Loader a try today.
http://www.howtomodyourwii.com/ |
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Agreed I think I might actually have already used some NTSC games un-wittingly, I'll just stick with the Pal ones. I'll stick with what I know and avoid what I don't know. I'm sure Nintendo are thinking about ways to stop this happening. I would imagine alot of new games will require new firmware for things to work. I don't really have an interest in Sports Resort, but I'll be interested to see how it works out. I don't use my SD card for anything about saving stuff, as I don't need it for the back up loader and that's mainly what I use it for, Thanks for the help today, been enlightening, hopefully this will help anyone else who want to do it and has quesitons |
Ok So I downloaded the Genesis Plus Emulator and around 800 games for it.
Now the only way I csn load the emulator is by loading the channels off the SD from the settings. How do I put the emulator into the homebrew channel? |
Success!! (kinda)
Successfully installed the CoverFloader stuff and got my HDD set up. Had to do some things that took awhile for me to figure out how to do, which wasn't on the how to. I think I need a new HDD, because it took 2 hours to copy over 1 game. SO, here is where the kinda part comes in. CoverFloader will boot up just fine, it'll even show me the game I have installed. However, maybe it's the game itself (Cruis'n), I will get into the main menu and hit circuit, and it'll freeze. I'm trying to test out installing a game to the HDD (it only works with real games), but so far since typing this post, it hasn't moved from 0%. Maybe it froze again. I'm gonna reboot and start over. |
Reset it and tried again. So far so good. Wii Sports seems to be installing fine right now. Will post the results.
-fuck it i don't know what to do It supposedly installed correctly, yet it doesn't show in the game list and the light in my HDD goes out. I have to restart the Wii, and the game is gone. I even tried again using Wii Play and the same shit happened. Only the one game I transferred from the computer (Cruis'n) is there. I don't know what to do. I'm currently burning a copy of Cruis'n to see if it replicates the freezing. I think I'm done messing with this. I'm lucky enough as it is being able to download and play games for free. No need to fuck anything up by adding extras I don't really need. Besides, I like having physical copies of the shit because then I can look on the shelf and know what I have and want to play. If anyone wants to know how to set up everything, send me a PM or something and give me time to write it out. Maybe you'll have better luck. Afterall, it could just be my shitty ass Black Friday budget USB drive from 4 years ago. |
I dunno.
I messed with it again, using a different game. This time, I used Super Paper Mario. Seems to work perfectly. Weird thing is that it took like 1/4 the time to transfer to the USB drive than that other game did. It's like it chooses when it wants to use USB 2.0 or 1.1.Played the disc of Cruis'n, although it doesn't freeze, it's a horrible horrible game. Very choppy and shit. Could be a bad rip. Who knows. I guess I cannot transfer any retail games over, since it still fucks up, but I'm going to transfer the ISO's that I haven't deleted yet onto it. Probably take overnight to do. |
G with regards to the retail games, you know there is a way to rip them right?
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Yeah, I'm just going to give up though. It took overnight just to transfer 2 games over. I need a new hard drive.
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after reading this thread, I've homebrewed my Wii. It was so simple, took about an hour. Thanks guys, the information in this thread was my impetus
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Oh yeah, another thing I forgot to mention. I've ran across another problem with 2 games so far (MK Armageddon & Red Steel). You need to patch the ISO to IOS249 before burning, using this.
-edit And make sure you bookmark this page. Will save you a whole lot of frustration. http://maschell.de/mediawiki-1.6.10/...lity_List_NTSC |
I've come to the conclusion that I've created a thread of the year candidate.
Go me! and G |
AWESOME thread and I :heart: Dave Youell.
A couple minor questions! Okay so I got my Wii all Homebrew'd up, thanks to the file Dave sent me. First things, can I not delete the files off my SD card? I backed up all my GH songs and ish, so wondering if I need to put them on a separate SD or if I can just plop them back on that one. Secondly, in the readme file it said "Now you're ready to get the latest CIOS (v10) " or something, do I need to do that or is what I have fine? And, most stupidly, I guess now that it's done, is there any other steps I need to take before I can start just playing burned ish on it? Also, probably more of a personal preference: Do you find it's better to grab an external HD to run stuff on, or do you find that simply using DVDs is sufficient? As of right right now I have no idea how many games I intend on illegally playing at my leisure, so I don't know. crossrine |
cIOS rev10 is only needed if you intend to play off a usb drive. If you're sticking to discs, it shouldn't be a problem staying with what Dave gave you (rev 7).
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And just research the game before burning it, to avoid making errors and building a pile of coasters.
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No, you're ready to burn and start playing.
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Probably should've just quoted you and replied, instead of turning it into 4 posts.
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Sweet, thanks. Also, doing a bit of reading, I guess using PAL versions of games is bad news bigtime? So I should just stick to NTSC or whatever? And even still, if I use NTSC is there a chance of bricking my console?
I think I'm gonna lean towards getting an external hard drive, in which case I should probably update to rev10 then I guess. I don't know. So much to take in all at once! crossrine |
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It's okay, just more posts for me to POSITIVE REP
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I'll link you to where I got the rev10 from. BRB |
Yeah that's kind of the feeling I was getting from browsing around a bit. I doubt I'll have any issues getting NTSC ISOs, provided my usual assortment of torrent sites don't drop an EGG on my face.
Also, ily (in case you haven't read your rep sheet yet) crossrine |
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=6432
When installing, I had to select Network Installation for it to work. |
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The hardest thing for me was the waiting for that first game to download for me to test everything out. :cool:
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Yeah I should probably get on that. :o
Still debating if I wanna buy a hard drive tho. I probably should. Then I can just buy the Arcade 360 and use the same HDD for that, and save money. Yes/no? I don't know. I wonder what I should download first. HMMMMMMM. crossrine |
I'm not seeing where to choose the "Network Installation" option? Are you still in the WAD Manager thing?
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The 360 uses it's own proprietary hard drive. :( |
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